The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

